Focused Self-Reflections – Culmination in Nursing Module

Focused Self-Reflections – Culmination in Nursing Module

Description of Module: This module will provide the student with the opportunity to reflect on their perspectives surrounding the knowledge, skills, and attitudes of the BSN nurse.

Module Objectives:

1. Formulate an understanding of uniqueness of their knowledge, skills, and attitudes as the student matures into the baccalaureate generalist nursing role in public/community healthcare clinical experiences.

• Discuss the benefits of finding and gaining new perspectives surrounding everyday events, remembering accomplishments, and solving problems.

• Interpret the student’s knowledge, skills, and attitudes that have developed surrounding each of the QSEN competencies.

• Create new perspectives surrounding the QSEN competencies that include patient centered care, teamwork and collaboration, evidence-based practice, quality improvement, safety, and informatics.

Essentials: II, III, IV, VI, & IX

QSEN Competencies: Patient Centered Care, Teamwork and Collaboration, Evidence-basedPractice, Quality Improvement, Safety, and Informatics

Resources:

QSEN Institute (2020). QSEN competencies. Retrieved from http://qsen.org/competencies/pre-licensure-ksas

APA Resources:

American Psychological Association. (2020). Publication manual of the American Psychological Association (7^th ed.). APA.

RN to BSN Program Information Center (Course listed in the student’s D2L Brightspace course listings). Find APA resources by going to Materials tab followed by the Content tab and then APA Format Resources in the RN to BSN Program Information Center course. Additionally, a link to this course has been provided in the NURS 450 Table of Contents.

SMSU McFarland Library – https://libguides.smsu.edu/c.php?g=432710&p=2950985

Please remember that using programs with citation shortcuts do not assure accurate APA formatting – so please double check

Other Resources:

Focused Self-Reflections – Culmination in Nursing Paper Review Video

Focused Self-Reflections – Culmination in Nursing Paper Review Video Outline

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Focused Self-Reflections – Culmination in Nursing Paper Draft Review (optional)

• NRNP/PRAC 6645 Comprehensive Psychiatric
• John Thompson, a 14-year-old male, was brought in by his father for complaints of fear of being exposed to disease.
• Summarize the factors that contributed to the chosen disease’s prevalence with respect to the affected population, including the following discussion points:
• What are the steps in the quality improvement model and how is benchmarking involved?
• LZT2 – Power, Influence & Leadership

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Assignments

1. Utilize Resources

• The student will complete the Focused Self-Reflections – Culmination in Nursing paper assignment, addressing the knowledge, skills, and attitudes of the BSN nursing student that have grown as a result of the NURS 450 clinical experiences, as well as other nursing experiences of the nursing student. There reflections will be about the nursing student’s experiences, and not the preceptor’s experiences.

The student will reflect on how the clinical experiences, and other nursing experiences, have provide the opportunity for the student to use: knowledge to mature into the baccalaureate generalist role; skills to mature into the baccalaureate generalist role, and; attitudes to mature into the baccalaureate generalist role.

The student will include reflections about how the student’s knowledge, skills, and attitudes have developed surrounding the QSEN competencies – namely Patient Centered Care, Teamwork and Collaboration, Evidence-based Practice, Quality Improvement, Safety, and Informatics.

The due date for the draft review and final Focused Self-Reflections – Culmination in Nursing paper is found on the NURS 450 Schedule.

Grading criteria are included in Appendix C in the NURS 450 Syllabus, as well as at the bottom of this module guide.

The Focused Self-Reflections – Culmination in Nursing Paper Review Video provides guidance for the student as they prepare to complete this assignment.

A Focused Self-Reflections – Culmination in Nursing Draft Review is available to students prior to submitting the final assignment. This is an optional resource. Please note due dates in the NURS 450 schedule for the draft review.

The Focused Self-Reflections – Culmination in Nursing paper assignment is to be submitted in the NURS 450 assignment dropbox following completion of 50 clinical hours.

Updated 1-4-21

Appendix C: Focused Self-Reflections – Culmination in Nursing

Providing focused reflections is important in this course due to the benefits of finding and gaining new perspectives surrounding everyday events, remembering accomplishments, and solving problems. The Focused Self-Reflections – Culmination in Nursing Paper will address the knowledge, skills, and attitudes of the BSN nursing student that have grown as a result of clinical experiences and/or professional experiences. These reflections are about the student – not the

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preceptor’s knowledge, skills, and attitudes. After completing 50 clinical hours, the studentwill reflect on how the clinical experiences, and/or other nursing experiences, have provided the opportunity for the student to use:

knowledge to mature into the baccalaureate generalist nursing role skills to mature into the baccalaureate generalist nursing role

attitudes to mature into the baccalaureate generalist nursing role

Objective: The student will reflect on the knowledge, skills, and attitudes they have developed surrounding the QSEN Competencies including patient centered care, teamwork and collaboration, evidence-based practice, quality improvement, safety, and informatics and demonstrate critical thinking surrounding the importance of the QSEN Competencies. Students will write a reflection paper, writing in first person, demonstrating their knowledge, skills, and attitudes surrounding the QSEN Competencies.

Students will refer to the QSEN Competencies (http://qsen.org/competencies/pre-licensure-ksas/) to guide them in defining the above competencies. This QSEN Competencies resource must be integrated into the assignment. Again, the paper may be submitted after completion of 50 clinical hours and may be written in first person.

80 points total

Topic	Excellent	Satisfactory	Unsatisfactory
Patient	Defines Patient Centered	Provides vague	Does not provide
Centered Care	Care and appraises the	definition and/or	definition or appraise
	*student’s development of	appraises the	the student’s
	their knowledge	student’s	development of their
	*student’s development of	development of one	knowledge, skills,
	their skills	or two of the	and attitudes
	*student’s development of	following:	surrounding patient
	their attitudes	knowledge, skills, or	centered care
	surrounding patient centered	attitudes surrounding	(0 pts)
	care	patient centered care,
	(9 pts)	but not all three
		(4.5 pts)
Teamwork	Defines Teamwork and	Provides vague	Does not provide
and	Collaboration and appraises	definition and/or	definition or appraise
Collaboration	the	appraises the	the student’s
	*student’s development of	student’s	development of their
	their knowledge	development of one	knowledge, skills,
	*student’s development of	or two of the	and attitudes
	their skills	following:	surrounding
	*student’s development of	knowledge, skills, or	teamwork and
	their attitudes	attitudes surrounding	collaboration
	surrounding teamwork and	teamwork and	(0 pts)
	collaboration

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	(9 pts)	collaboration, but not
		all three
		(4.5 pts)
Evidence-	Defines Evidence-based	Provides vague	Does not provide
based Practice	Practice and appraises the	definition and/or	definition or appraise
	*student’s development of	appraises the	the student’s
	their knowledge	student’s	development of their
	*student’s development of	development of one	knowledge, skills,
	their skills	or two of the	and attitudes
	*student’s development of	following:	surrounding
	their attitudes	knowledge, skills, or	evidence-based
	surrounding evidence-based	attitudes surrounding	practice
	practice	evidence-based	(0 pts)
	(9 pts)	practice, but not all
		three
		(4.5 pts)
Quality	Defines Quality	Provides vague	Does not provide
Improvement	Improvement and appraises	definition and/or	definition or appraise
	the	appraises the	the student’s
	*student’s development of	student’s	development of their
	their knowledge	development of one	knowledge, skills,
	*student’s development of	or two of the	and attitudes
	their skills	following:	surrounding quality
	*student’s development of	knowledge, skills, or	improvement
	their attitudes	attitudes surrounding	(0 pts)
	surrounding quality	quality improvement,
	improvement	but not all three
	(9 pts)	(4.5 pts)
Safety	Defines Safety and appraises	Provides vague	Does not provide
	the	definition and/or	definition or appraise
	*student’s development of	appraises the	the student’s
	their knowledge	student’s	development of their
	*student’s development of	development of one	knowledge, skills,
	their skills	or two of the	and attitudes
	*student’s development of	following:	surrounding safety
	their attitudes	knowledge, skills, or	(0 pts)
	surrounding safety	attitudes surrounding
	(9 pts)	safety, but not all
		three (4.5 pts)
Informatics	Defines Informatics and	Provides vague	Does not provide
	appraises the	definition and/or	definition or appraise
	*student’s development of	appraises the	the student’s
	their knowledge	student’s	development of their
	*student’s development of	development of one	knowledge, skills,
	their skills	or two of the	and attitudes
		following:

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	*student’s development of	knowledge, skills, or	surrounding
	their attitudes	attitudes surrounding	informatics
	surrounding informatics	informatics, but not	(0 pts)
	(9 pts)	all three	(4.5 pts)
Critical	Student articulates previous	Student articulates	Student does not
Thinking/	assumptions they held	previous assumptions	articulate previous
Assumptions	surrounding a nurse’s ability	they held		assumptions they
Surrounding	to improve healthcare	surrounding a nurse’s	held surrounding a
the QSEN	compared to what they now	ability to improve	nurse’s ability to
Competencies,	understand as they near their	healthcare but does	improve healthcare
understanding	BSN	not compare it to	nor do they state
–	(9 pts)	what they now feel	what they now feel as
“The overall		as they near their	they near their BSN
goal for the		BSN –		(0 pts)
Quality and		or
Safety		Student does not
Education for		articulate previous
Nurses		assumptions they
(QSEN)		held surrounding a
project is to		nurse’s ability to
meet the		improve healthcare
challenge of		but state what they
preparing		now feel as they near
future nurses		their BSN (4.5 pts)
who will have
the
knowledge,
skills and
attitudes
(KSAs)
necessary to
continuously
improve the
quality and
safety of the
healthcare
systems
within which
they work”
(QSEN, 2020,
para. 1).
QSEN	Accesses and uses QSEN	List QSEN (2020) in	Does not access or
Competencies	(2020) resource as reference.	reference list but	use QSEN (2020)
	Material drawn from this	does not cite	resource as a citation
	reference is synthesized and	reference –		and reference (0 pts)
		Or –

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	integrated into the paper	Cites QSEN (2020)
	(4 pts)	but does not include
		in reference list
		(2 pts)
Title Page	Title page includes page	Title page includes	Does not include the
	number, title, student name,	some but not all of	title page (0 pts)
	institution, course number	the following: page
	and name, instructor name,	number, title, student
	and assignment due date	name, institution,
		course number and
	(3 pts)	name, instructor
		name, and
		assignment due date
		(1.5 pts)
Organization	Demonstrates organizational	Demonstrates	Does not organize
	writing skills by displaying a	organizational	writings or use
	proficient understanding of	writing skills but	headings per APA
	how to appropriately	does not organize	formatting (0 pts)
	organize his/her work using	work using headings
	headings per APA formatting	per APA formatting
	(3 pts)	(1.5 pts)
APA	Demonstrates information	Demonstrates	Does not cite
formatting	literacy through formation of	information literacy	references or create a
	APA citations and an APA	through formation of	reference list (0 pts)
	reference list for resources	citations and a
	with less than 3 errors in	reference list with >3
	APA formatting (4 pts)	errors in APA
		formatting (2 pts)
Writing	Writing is clear and focused.	Writing is lacking	No clarity or focus
Mechanics	Reader can easily understand	clarity and focus.	(0 pts)
	the main idea. Contains rare	Reader cannot easily
	punctuation, spelling, and/or	understand the main
	capitalization errors. The	idea. The main idea
	main idea is incorporated in a	is not incorporated
	manner appropriate for the	into the text in a
	practice of nursing	manner appropriate
	(3 pts)	for the practice of
		nursing (1.5 pts)
	80 points total

Reference: QSEN Institute. (2020). QSEN competencies.